Information & Ethics committee  I don't think there will be any particular costs. There is no transition period. Once my mandate is up, it's over. When a new person takes over the duties, their mandate begins immediately. No funding is set aside for an overlap, and I don't anticipate any issues in terms of fu

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. Uncharacteristically, it appears, we seem to have enough money to carry out our mandate.

Information & Ethics committee  We have always maintained a lot of advisories, guidelines, and things on our website in many different areas. We send e-mails out to MPs and public office holders as necessary if there's a specific issue to be dealt with. We give talks to virtually anybody who requests one. We of

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, we are constantly looking to improve our website. Do we have a program next year on the website?

Information & Ethics committee  It's hard to say. We look at our budget in terms of the different sections, and the section that looks after communications also has other responsibilities. It wouldn't be terribly expensive, because we're doing it on the Internet. Our presentations are normally in town. Very rar

Information & Ethics committee  I'm going to start by explaining our process. When I do an examination or an inquiry, my standard process and almost the very first thing I do is to notify the person complained about and notify the person who complained that I'm proceeding. Then I contact the person complained a

Information & Ethics committee  Each year, my corporate services group will approach each section in my office and consult with them on the budget needs, and then pull them together and establish our budget. I don't know if my corporate director would like to add anything to that.

Information & Ethics committee  Do you mean where we can save money?

Information & Ethics committee  We don't spend a lot of money on administration. Can you think of some examples?

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, $600,000.

Information & Ethics committee  No, it was $400,000. We had $600,000 left—

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, $400,000.

Information & Ethics committee  Right.

Information & Ethics committee  Basically, we always seem to end up with a bit of a surplus. We thought $600,000 was probably too much, so we've lowered it to $400,000. The thing is that we never quite know what kind of contingency we might have, particularly for investigations.